From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> It used to be that alternate references were not considered "complete" when fetching via fetch-pack. This failure was not so obvious because the big benefit of alternates is seen when cloning, and clone used a different data path: it put the alternate references into extra refs (which makes them look like references within the local repository). This patch series teaches fetch-pack to treat objects that are available via alternates as "complete". Once that is fixed, clone doesn't need to use the special extra_refs kludge, so change that. And once that is changed, the extra_refs API is no longer needed at all, so remove it. Michael Haggerty (7): t5700: document a failure of alternates to affect fetch clone.c: move more code into the "if (refs)" conditional fetch-pack.c: rename some parameters from "path" to "refname" fetch-pack.c: inline insert_alternate_refs() everything_local(): mark alternate refs as complete clone: do not add alternate references to extra_refs refs: remove the extra_refs API builtin/clone.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++-------------------------- builtin/fetch-pack.c | 23 ++++++++++--------- refs.c | 23 +------------------- refs.h | 8 ------- t/t5700-clone-reference.sh | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 5 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html